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Outside her health-care mission, there is probably no title that could + convey the scope of her role, although Counsellor to the President was batted around for a long time. As always, she is her husband's most trusted confidant, best friend, toughest critic and most ardent cheerleader. She is open but vague about how much they share. "We'll say, What do you think about this? or Give me an opinion about that. It's kind of give-and-take, pretty informal." And then there is complete access. "During the day I can see him anytime I want...
...volumes have been written about the 83-year-old spy ring, bureaucrats have always maintained the polite pretense that the organization didn't exist. Major also named Sir Colin McColl as the division's long-standing head. Britain's Who's Who currently lists the MI6 chief as a counsellor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who enjoys cycling, tennis and the classics...
Baker has also been criticized for his management of the State Department. He has alienated senior career diplomats by relying too heavily on a tight circle of longtime aides brought in from the outside. Among them: policy planning director Dennis Ross; counsellor and Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs Robert Zoellick; and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Margaret Tutwiler. Career types especially resent Baker's decision to replace Thomas Pickering as the U.S. representative to the United Nations. A seasoned and effective diplomat, Pickering held the Security Council in line through 12 anti-Iraq resolutions during the six months...
...forum spectators and residents of this town agreed that Barbara Bush is a great political asset to the president because of her popularity with voters across the country. "I have a strong feeling for her," said Alvin N. Hartman, 76, a retired investment counsellor form Newton, Mass. "I think she's big asset to the President--a real mother figure...
...University of Wisconsin, Cheney plunged into politics and hardly ever looked back. He went to Washington in 1968 as a staffer to a Republican Congressman, who soon loaned him to Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. When Rumsfeld moved to Nixon's White House as counsellor, Cheney went along as his deputy. He escaped the Watergate tarnish by resigning in 1973 to work for a firm of Washington lobbyists...